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ovaries, which are moreover nearly glabrous and have long stalks. 

 Quite ripe fruit is as yet unknown. 



14. GONIOTHALAMUS, Blume. 

 Small trees or shrubs. Leaves with small nerves, formino- intra- 

 marginal loops. Flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary or extra-axillary ; 

 peduncles with basal, scaly, distichous bracts. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 

 6, valvate in 2 series ; outer thick, flat or nearly so ; inner smaller 

 shortly clawed, cohering in a vaulted cap over the stamens and ovary. 

 Stamens many, linear-oblong ; anther-cells remote, dorsal ; connective 

 produced into an oblong or truncate process. Ovaries many ; style 

 simple or 2-fid ; ovules solitary or 2, superposed, sub-basal (4 in G. uvari- 

 oides.) Bipe carpels 1-seeded. — Distrib. About 47 species, natives of 

 Eastern tropical Asia and its islands. 



The plants referred to this genus are, by Baillon, treated as part of 

 Melodorum. 

 Ovules 1 or 2. 



Style cylindric, slender; stigma subulate, 



entire 

 Style very short ; stigma funnel-shaped, slit 



on one side, its edges toothed 

 Style cylindric ; stigma truncate, entire. 



Flowers in fascicles from the stem only ; 



ripe carpels 1*25 in. long 

 Flowers solitary from the axils of the 

 leaves or fallen leaves ; ripe carpels 4 

 in. long 

 Style subulate or cylindric ; stigma deeply 



2-cleft, petals 3 to 5 in. long... 

 Style cylindric ; stigma unequally 2-toothed 

 Style cylindric ; stigma minutely and equally 

 2-toothed. 



Flowers axillary or from the axils of 

 fallen leaves j outer petals more than 

 1 in. long. 



Anthers with slightly convex, orbi- 

 cular apical appendages 

 Anthers with very pointed, conical 

 apical appendages. 



Nerves of leaves 28 to 34 pairs 

 Nerves of leaves fewer than 

 20 paii's. 



G. fulvus. 



8. G. Curtisii. 



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